ws |
fw |
flight |
time |
10-15 |
6.5-7.7 (5) |
Jun-Sep |
night & to light |
lfp |
habitat |
distribution |
status |
sea aster (Aster tripolium) |
saltmarsh |
s&eE |
NA |
Male genitalia
Vinculum V-shaped with a small blunt triangular saccus; posterior ends free. Tegumen arched with a narrow posterodorsal plate; anterior ends articulate with costa. Ganthos arms from posterolateral angles of dorsal plate of tegumen, surrounding anal tube; central lobe ovoid, laterally compressed. Sacculus: anteroventral margin fairly straight; ALA bluntly rounded, inrolled; lateral margin incurved, fairly straight when set, slightly crenate; PLA with an incurved process that crosses the valvula when set, a distinct small tooth on inner surface at base of process. Costa strengthened with a fairly broad basal bar, a median hairy hump that is attached to the sacculus and a narrow lateral extension that supports the valvula. Valvula elongate, rounded apex, extends well beyond sacculus. Transtilla continuous with base of costa, meets in midline, where it gives origin to a pair of long diverging posterior processes. Juxta pedunculate: a ventral extension attaches to the posterior margin of the dorsal surface of the saccus; the bases of the sacculi articulate with the posterior surface of the juxta; the juxta extends anteriorly to attach to the base of the ventral surface of the tunica. Tunica 2-pronged, the left prong much longer than the right and with a small elongate subapical keel. Vesica ~as long as tunica; annulus distinct; diffuse circumferential sclerotisation between annulus and tunica; curved anterior to annulus, both convex and concave surface with a sclerotised band, that on the concave surface confluent with the annulus. Male genital key: Transtilla with a pair of long diverging processes.
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Female genitalia
Female genital key: Corpus bursae with both a thorn signum and a linear spiculate patch; ductus bursae arising eccentrically from the left side of antrum; ostium elongate; antrum forming a pouch anterior to origin of ductus bursae; posterior ½ of ductus bursae with a median "tail", posterior ¼ with spicules surrounding the tail
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